Lauderhill woman's killer executed at Florida State Prison

Marshall Lee Gore was executed Tuesday night. He turned down a last meal… (Sun Sentinel )

October 1, 2013|By Heather Carney and Tonya Alanez, Sun Sentinel

Killer Marshall Lee Gore was executed by lethal injection at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday, 25 years after he fatally stabbed and beat a Lauderhill woman, then buried her body in a trash pile.

Gore, 50, was on Death Row for killing Robyn Gayle Novick, 30, whose strangled body was found in southwest Miami-Dade County in 1988.

For his last meal, Gore turned down a pepperoni-and-sausage pizza and instead drank only a Coca-Cola.

It was Gore's fourth scheduled execution at Florida State Prison in Starke.

In June, a federal appeals court stayed the execution for mental health claims. One month later, Gore was granted a stay of execution by a Bradford County circuit judge who found "reasonable grounds to believe" Gore was insane. A third execution date was rescheduled in September.

"I have been through so much," Phyllis Novick said of her daughter's murder. "It's been a long time — they've sent him back quite a few times. It took a toll on us."

Robyn Novick grew up in the Cincinnati area, the older of two daughters in an upper-middle class family, said family members. In South Florida, Robyn Novick worked as a credit representative for a loan company and had been moonlighting as an exotic dancer.

She had been missing for a week when her body was found in a trash heap. She had been stabbed in the chest; a belt cinched around her neck.

Gore had a record of violence against women in 1988.

On Jan. 31, he killed a Tennessee college student in North Florida. On Valentine's Day, he stabbed and raped a Miami waitress. And on March 15, he beat, slashed, raped and dumped a Hollywood woman and kidnapped her 2-year-old son.

Gore also was on death row for the Tennessee woman's murder and was simultaneously serving five consecutive life sentences and three 30-year prison terms for kidnapping, attempted murder and sexual assaults.

"Our daughter was such an angel," Phyllis Novick said Tuesday from her home in Cincinnati. "She was so good to everybody. Our hearts were broken, and that's it."